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The International Center for Sports Studies (CIES) was pioneered in 1995 when FIFA the world football governing body collaborated with the University, the State and the Municipality of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The prime objective of the CIES is to closely link the sporting and academic worlds, specializing in three key disciplines: law, sociology and economics of sport. Its mission is to provide an educational platform for the study of sport, while also providing a broad range of professional services to sports entities.

Football fanatics have a lot of passion for the game. They find the most unique way to express their support of their teams. This includes dawning face paint of the country they support. This is much like the tribesmen who dawn war paint to intimidate their opponents. Other fans get their hands on exclusive team jerseys and merchandise of their favourite teams.

The FIFA 2010 has kicked off in a grand style for the first time in the African Continent. All over the world there is a surge of excitement and enthusiasm to watch this game.

Almost all people right now are addicted in watching football. Unlike any other sports like basketball, hockey, golf and billiards, why is it that football is the most addicted sport of all time? What makes the fans attracted in watching football on TV or at the stadium?

Born May 1980, Steven George Gerrard plays for the Liverpool football club of the British Premier League. He is also a regular member of the English National Team, playing striker for Team England since 2006.

Born in Langreo, Asturias in 1981, David Villa almost never got to play football. He fractured his right femur as a little boy and but for the determination of his father, El Guaje (the Kid) might never have become one of the top strikers in the sport.

29 year-old Iker Casillas Fernandez is a talented goalkeeper and reckoned by many in the football world to be one of the best playing today. He is the first team goalkeeper for La Liga’s Real Madrid and also plays that for the Spanish National Team.

Argentine soccer is a power-house when it comes to producing legendary players and there should not be any doubt when players like great Batistuta are cited. The Argentine playmaker is independent of any beginning or conclusion for he has done miracles that are unique and unmatchable.

Pele the Brazilian soccer legend was pointed out to me by my father when he was only sixteen and seventeen. That is now over fifty years ago. Many thought Pele was the footballer player of the twentieth Century but according to internet vote Diego Maradona of Argentina apparently had the edge on Pele amongst those voting in that non scientific poll.

A staunch and dependable defender, Philipp Lahm plays for Bayern Munich and is also a participant on the German National Football Team. At only 26 year of age, he has played for VFB Stuttgart in addition to his current role on the Bayern Munich squad.

Is he the greatest contemporary footballer in the game today? Many might argue that yes, Lionel Messi is the greatest. After all, fans and foes have often drawn lines of comparison between Messi and his hero, the legendary Deigo Maradona.

When one of the greatest soccer players in the history of the sports gives you a nod of approval, you pay attention and so does the world. Gianluigi Buffon, the Italian goalkeeper for both the Italian National Team and the Serie A cub, Juventus, knows how that feels.